10 FOOD ADULTERATION AND METHODS FOR DETECTION. 



this connection, however, attention should be called to the claim of 

 packers that 1 or 2 per cent of starch should be added to the sausage 

 that is to be boiled, in order to prevent its shrinking when the sausage 

 is cooked. 



The following definitions of " adulteration " and "misbranding," as 

 applied to foods, are taken from the food bill now pending in Con- 

 gress: a 



SEC. 6. That for the purposes of this act an article shall be deemed to be adul- 

 terated 



In the case of food: 



First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or 

 lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 



Second. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article. 



Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part 

 abstracted. 



Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, or stained in a manner whereby 

 damage or inferiority is concealed. 



Fifth. If it contain any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient 

 which may render such article injurious to health: Provided, That when in the 

 preparation of food products for shipment they are preserved by an external appli- 

 cation applied in such manner that the preservative is necessarily removed mechan- 

 ically, or by maceration in water, or otherwise, the provisions of this act shall be 

 construed as applying only when said products are ready for consumption. 



Sixth. If it consist in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal 

 or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manu- 

 factured or not, or if it is a product of a diseased animal, or one that has died other- 

 \vi-e than by slaughter. 



SEC. 7. That the term "misbranded," as used herein, shall apply to all drugs, or 

 articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or 

 label of which shall bear any statement regarding the ingredients or substances con- 

 tained in such article, \vhich statement shall be false or misleading in any particular, 

 ami to any food or drug product which is falsely branded as to the State, Territory, 

 or country in which it is manufactured or produced. 



That for the purposes of this act an article shall also be deemed to be misbranded: 



In the case of food 



First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of 

 am >t her article. 



Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or 

 purport to lx? a foreign product when not so. 



Third. If in package form, the quantity of the contents of the package be not 

 plainly and correctly stated in terms of weight or measure, on the outside of the 

 package. 



Fourth. It the package containing it or its label shall bear any statement, design, 

 or device Hoarding the ingredients or the substances contained therein, which state- 

 ment, de-iim. or device shall be false or misleading in any particular: I'mritli'il, That 

 an article of food which does not contain any added poisonous or deleterious ingre- 

 dient shall not !>< deemed to IK? adulterated or misbranded in the following cases: 



First. In the case <>f mixtures or compounds which may be now or from time to 

 time hereafter known as article- <>!' food, under their own distinctive names, and not 

 an imitation ,, r offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, if the 



"House of Representatives, Fifty-ninth Congress, Report No. 21 IS, March 7, 1906. 



